Netcasts From Around the Slightly Oval Table

A netcast from the 26 Jan 09 meeting of the Social Tech Brewing Co. at the Code Factory, featuring Pam Kapoor, a Gatineau-based communications/advocacy specialist and produced by Chris Brown of Liquid Visual. From the Brewing Co's site:

'Obama's election victory last November has been hailed as the coming of age for online political campaigning. In Canada we've seen the growing importance of online campaigning in recent elections, and in the progressive coalition movement that nearly brought down the government at the end of last year.'

Mike sallies forth again at the ever-friendly Octopus Books for the latest in the Tuesday talks on Social Applications of the Web. On a be-bus striked Ottawa January evening, he explained Delicious and other bookmarking networks.

To see the original presentation announcement plus the notes.

This Tuesday saw Mike in front of a good crowd at our Event at Octopus Books for the second part of our speaking series about Photo Sharing Tools.

For the slides and links used in the presentation, check out the blog post from the workshop.

Mike discusses CRMs with an enthusiastic audience at this session from the LabourTech 2008 conference in Toronto. The focus is on CiviCRM, but ultimately it is a push for organizers to modernize and decentralized their membership system.

Part Two of the Smackdown. Here we get into some specifics after the coffee break in the morning session. Actually discussing details about the differences between Drupal & Wordpress implementations.

From the Open Source CMS Smackdown at LabourTech 2008 in Toronto. Mike discusses with Ian Clysdale (CUPE) & Himy Syed (Activist & Word Press Advocate) the need & process of adopting a CMS.

Part One at Octopus Books, in which we see Mike address 'Social Applications of the Web for Activists'. The visual presentation is available in a previous post.